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WINDOW PANEL SUPPORTING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED IMI. 25. |919.

Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

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UMTED STATES JOSEPH SOSS, 0F NEW YORK, N, Y.

wINnoW-rANnL-sorronrruo FRAME V'Speoicatiofn of Letters Patent. Patjgd Aug. 19', 1919.

Application led January 25, 1919.. Serial No. 273.017.

To all whom t may concern i Be it known tl1atI,-Jos1.rHSoss, a citizen of the United States,and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Panel- Supporting Frames, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to frames for supporting window panels and particularly to devicesI of this class used in connection with the canvas or similar hoods of motor vehicles; and the object of the invention is to provide a frame of the class specified with improved means for grip-ping the material of the hood in securing the frame in place; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class and for the purpose specified, constructed and operating as hereinafter described -and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a rear View of a part of the back portion of the hood of a motor vehicle and showing my improved frame mounted therein;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing I have shown at 10 a back or part of the back of the canvas or rubberized fabric hood of a motor vehicle and said back portion 10 of the hood is cut out in the central top portion thereof to form a circular opening 11 in which my improved window frame 12 is adapted to be secured.

The frame 12 is divided centrally as shown at 13 into two approximately similar parts 14 and 15, the part 14 being provided in the inner edge portion thereo-f with a rabbet groove or recess 16 adapted to receive a giass or other transparent panel 17, which conforms with the shape of the frame 12 whichI in the construction shown, is a. circular frame and the separate parts 14 and 15 of the frame are secured together by screws 18 at therein. i y v In practice the separate parts 14 and 15 of the frame 12 are provided in and on. the

,abutting faces thereof and inwardly of the periphery of said parts with an' interlocking construction comprising convex or pointed knobs or projections 19 and corresponding sockets or recesses 20 alternately and circularly arranged on and in the adjacent faces of both of said parts. The convex or pointed knobs or projections 19 and corresponding sockets or recesses 2O on and in one of the parts 14 and 15 operate in connection with the corresponding sockets or recesses 20 and pointed knobs or projections on the other of said parts, as is clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, and this construction serves to grip and hold the fabric material of the hood securely between the separate parts of the frame without crimping, breaking or otherwise in juring said material outside of or around said frame.

'In securing the frame to the hood member 10, or within the opening 11 therein, one part of the frame 12 is placed on the inner side of the hood member and the other part on the outer side thereof, with the glass or transparent material 17 therebetween and with the inner edge portion of the hood member 10 between the se arate parts of the frame securely held and und in said frame by means of the convex or pointed knobs or projections and corre sponding sockets or recesses in the separate parts of said frame.

With my improvement, a frame of the class described with a transparent panel secured therein may be quickly and easily secured in the hood material of an auto mobile body or in any other flexible or fibrous materia-l used for any purpose, and such operation will produce a neat and finished effect and the material in which the frame is secured will not be crimped, broken or otherwise injured.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A frame of the class described composed of two approximately similar parts, means whereby a transparent panel may be secured between said parts, and said parts being; also provided in their adjacent faces but outside of the transparent pan with oirenlarly and alternately a''rn" and spaced convex or pointed'knobs and correspending recesses adapted to receive said were@ agate Mohaa. i y

2. A ra e o the cass deseriloed composed of two similar fit hiiting'buttg faces, 4means whereby a panel mig be insrwdbween Said foies, matinee' ahasd inl'aia aestiiineff sind' penal, when the latter is in position, for sect'lgv ya fibrous member therebetween, Comprising al- AtJernat/ely4 arranged -pointed knobs or projec- Rreence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 23r day of January, 1919.

JOSEPH SSS.

Witnesses C. 2E. Mmmnt H. 'E. Tamarack. 

